Plant Guide to Palm Springs Tramway Sidewalk, San Jacinto Mountains

Here is an example of how to use the guide. You begin at the Jeffrey pine on your left, which is the only Jeffrey pine noted in the guide. There are many Jeffrey pines along this sidewalk; the estimate we put in the guide is 20 plants in at least 9 locations. At about 3 steps after the Jeffrey pine, there are two species visible in the distance to your right, sugar pine and green-leaf manzanita. You then have to walk 15 steps to the next species, the Grinnell's beardtongue. After two more steps you'll find the curl-leaf mountain-mahogany on your right. There are at least 20 plants of this species in at least 4 locations. Also on the right, next to the curl-leaf mountain-mahogany, is the San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush. Immediately following those species the concrete sidewalk makes a sharp curve left, which is called a switchback.

An explanation of all the columns is at the end of the guide.

# Steps	S	#	id?	Common Name	Latin Name	#here
0	l			Begin guide at top of concrete sidewalk next to Tram Elevator Entrance; elevation ~8500 feet (2591 m)
0	l	1		Jeffrey pine	Pinus jeffreyi	20 / 9
3	r			(sugar pine, Pinus lambertiana at top of ridge; green-leaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula 20 feet uphill on closed access road)
15	b	2		Grinnell's beardtongue	Penstemon grinnellii var. grinnellii	99 / 5
2				Switchback left
0	r	3		curl-leaf mountain-mahogany	Cercocarpus ledifolius	20 / 4
0	r	4		San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush	Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina	99 / 9
13	r	6		white fir	Abies concolor	8 / 5
16				Switchback right
20	r	5		San Jacinto Mts. keckiella	Keckiella rothrockii var. jacintensis	20 / 2
8	r	7		canyon live oak	Quercus chrysolepis	5 / 2
0				Switchback left
44	l	8		wild tarragon	Artemisia dracunculus	3 / 2
7	l	9		sugar pine	Pinus lambertiana	3 / 1
1				Switchback right
60				Switchback left
30	l	10		Fremont's goosefoot	Chenopodium fremontii	3 / 1
24				Switchback right
86	r			(Parish's campion, Silene parishii)
0	r			(Parish's bedstraw, Galium parishii)
17	r	11		goldenrod	Solidago velutina ssp. californica	30 / 1
13	r	12		granite prickly phlox	Linanthus pungens	10 / 2
0	r	13		short-flowered monardella	Monardella nana	12 / 1
	l			(Parish's snowberry, Symphoricarpos rotundifolius var. parishii)
42	r	14		Parish's bedstraw	Galium parishii	15 / 1
18	l			(woodland spurge, Euphorbia lurida; wax currant, Ribes cereum var. cereum)
20	r			(mountain California-fuchsia, Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium)
2	r			(California coffeeberry, Frangula californica)
21	l			Sign: "Trail information"; end guide

# Steps: The number of steps from the previous entry in the guide to the current entry. Your mileage (aka step size) may vary!

S: Side of trail on which the first occurrence is found: left, right, both, or center

#: Species are numbered in order of first occurrence on trail.

#here gives the minimum number of on-trail plants of this species on this trail, with the number of locations on this trail following the /, using maximum values of 99/9. 1/1 means a single plant in a single location; 10/9 means 10 plants occurring in at least 9 locations, etc.